Sybren
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Sybren is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 10K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 69Kfew records
- USUnited States≈1 in 14Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10.0K (inferred from the name graph)
1,730 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sybren counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,730 | 1 in 10K | 1.7K | Sybren | 61 |
| BE Belgium | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Sybren | 32 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Sybren | 3 |
| US United States | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Sybren | 31 |
| DE Germany | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Sybren | 14 |
| AU Australia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Sybren | 8 |
1,730 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sybren Valkemab. 1850NLDutch playwright
- Sybren Ruurds de Grootb. 1916NLDutch physicist (1916-1994)
- Sybren Valkemab. 1916NLDutch glass artist (1916-1996)
- Sybren Jansmab. 1982NLDutch bobsledder
- Prince Hugo de Bourbon de Parmeb. 1997NLnot in their usual name(born 1997)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.7K | #755 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.2K | #1,919 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sybren a male or female name?
- Sybren is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Sybren have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Sybren, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sybren.
- Where is Sybren most common?
- Sybren is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 10.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sybren?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,730 people named Sybren, about 1 in 10.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sybren?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sybrenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sybren”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.